No Country for Women - Humanism, Secularism, Feminism

Taslima Nasreen

Taslima Nasreen, an award-winning writer, physician, secular humanist and human rights activist, is known for her powerful writings on women oppression and unflinching criticism of religion, despite forced exile and multiple fatwas calling for her death. In India, Bangladesh and abroad, Nasreen’s fiction, nonfiction, poetry and memoir have topped the best-seller’s list.

Taslima Nasreen was born in Bangladesh. She started writing when she was 13. Her writings won the hearts of people across the border and she landed with the prestigious literary award Ananda from India in 1992. Taslima won The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought from the European Parliament in 1994. She received the Kurt Tucholsky Award from Swedish PEN, the Simone de Beauvoir Award and Human Rights Award from Government of France, Le Prix de l' Edit de Nantes from the city of Nantes, France, Academy prize from the Royal Academy of arts, science and literature from Belgium. She is a Humanist Laureate in The International Academy for Humanism,USA. She won Distinguished Humanist Award from International Humanist and Ethical Union, Free-thought Heroine award from Freedom From Religion foundation, USA., IBKA award, Germany,and Feminist Press Award, USA . She got the UNESCO Madanjeet Singh prize for Promotion of the Tolerance and Non-violence in 2005. She received the Medal of honor of Lyon. She got honorary citizenship from Paris, Nantes, Lyon, Metz, Thionville, Esch etc. Taslima was awarded the Condorcet-Aron Prize at the “Parliament of the French Community of Belgium” in Brussels and Ananda literary award again in 2000.

Bestowed with honorary doctorates from Gent University and UCL in Belgium, and American University of Paris and Paris Diderot University in France, she has addressed gatherings in major venues of the world like the European Parliament, National Assembly of France, Universities of Sorbonne, Oxford, Harvard, Yale, etc. She got fellowships as a research scholar at Harvard and New York Universities. She was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in the USA in 2009.

Taslima has written 40 books in Bengali, which includes poetry, essays, novels and autobiography series. Her works have been translated in thirty different languages. Some of her books are banned in Bangladesh. Because of her thoughts and ideas she has been banned, blacklisted and banished from Bengal, both from Bangladesh and West Bengal part of India. She has been prevented by the authorities from returning to her country since 1994, and to West Bengal since 2007.

Wealthy Muslim married men’s sex tourism. Virgins only.

Muslim men from the Middle East and Africa come to India to buy ‘one month wives’ for sex. Poor Muslim families pressurize their underage teen daughters to consummate a forced marriage to middle aged men, much older than their fathers, who pay for them to be their wives for a few weeks. The wedding certificate comes with a divorce certificate that fixes the terms of the divorce at the end of the groom’s holiday. It is nothing but pure prostitution in the name of marriages.

Girls and women are commodities. Poor families do not deny the contract marriages because they do not have money to pay dowry for their daughters. They prefer to collect money through their daughters’ one-month contract ‘marriages’ to fund their daughters’ real marriages. They have to pay dowry to the real grooms for making their daughters real wives cum slaves. Girls have to do all the household chores of their husbands’ families and bear and rear their children. These girls are used as sex slaves in both marriages, fake or real, illegal or legal, temporary or permanent.

And those wealthy married Muslim men with kids! They know they will have sex as much as they want with virgin girls in paradise. But they do not like to wait for that, they turn Earth into paradise. They rape temporary virgin girls whom they get through temporary marriages. They make Allah a witness of their marriages, temporary and permanent. Allah allows polygamy. Allah is the protector.

Comments

Sigh; rich, married men with kids having sex with non-consenting teenagers. What can one say about these scumbags? This system absolutely tramples you if you lack any sort of power. The combination of femaleness and poverty is devastating.

What kind of human are they?? I don’t think they are human at first place…..all women regardless of their region and religion should boycott Muslim men who treat women as commodity. Women need to unite and raise voice against any domestic and social violence.

few years back i came to know one Arabian guy who married to two Bangladeshi girls at a time and bought one flat for them to reside therein. he used to visit two or three times in Bangladesh and used to stay with those girls for pleasure as his legal wives. i just became astounded when i heard of it. after all these years it would not be possible for me who those Bangladeshi guys were involved in it. so far i knew they were involved in manpower business. i also learnt that those guys were moneyed and powerful. i was shocked.

Why don’t we hang those people who demand dowry. A stupid custom which is a root cause. Fact is India is a poor country and ppl have made this for easy money. Simple if u are vulnerable ppl will exploit u. Ppl eat meat b”co’s it is sold in the market.